Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • HOW DO WE KNOW WE ARE DUNNING KRUGER-ING OURSELVES INTO IGNORANCE? People who fe

    HOW DO WE KNOW WE ARE DUNNING KRUGER-ING OURSELVES INTO IGNORANCE?

    People who feel out of control of their lives want to feel smart and in control so they create narratives that provide them with the false comfort of understanding, when in fact, all they do is manufacture their own ignorance.

    —“The question is: What is the acid test to determine when you are doing this, and how do you stop yourself from continuing in self-deception? Its a bit of a dunning-kruger paradox. — Kage Keller

    Yes, well that’s exactly it, isn’t it? Which is why Socrates was so proud of saying he knew nothing. Because we never know what is true, only what is false. So retain skepticism in all things.

    When you encounter an idea ask yourself the following: Is this what people really do? Because Human beings always follow the same, practical, tedious, boring, recipe:

    RECIPE

    1) Identify opportunities to obtain the greatest reward in the shortest time, with the greatest certainty, at the lowest cost, with the least risk.

    2) justify why one’s actions are good regardless of whether they are in fact good.

    3) explain history by presuming knowledge at the outset that actors did not possess until after the fact.

    WHY? BECAUSE:

    4) life consists of entirely mundane activities with rare exceptions, and we merely exploit opportunities then create history around them making ourselves sound good and heroic.

    5) people in power are in power because it is in many people’s interest that they are in power, and that is the only reason they are in power. And almost always 1-4 above apply.

    THEREFORE

    6) so if you can’t explain what people are trying to do as a mundane search for benefits by the cheapest means possible, then creating stories to cover for them, you don’t know what happened.

    —“So essentially what you are lining out is: the model you use to process and predict what you perceive must continuously be updated through iterative and recursive questioning of the truth?

    I often think I vacillate in whether I am perceptive or delusional. I think what lead me to you, Curt, was a sense that you make accessible the means to answer that question for myself. That’s real power.”— Kage Keller

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-15 14:42:00 UTC

  • FALSE COMFORTS CREATE IGNORANCE People who feel out of control of their lives wa

    FALSE COMFORTS CREATE IGNORANCE

    People who feel out of control of their lives want to feel smart and in control so they create narratives that provide them with the false comfort of understanding, when in fact, all they do is manufacture their own ignorance.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-15 12:53:00 UTC

  • A CULT OF AGENCY by Joel Davis We must replace the church (parasitic bullshittin

    A CULT OF AGENCY

    by Joel Davis

    We must replace the church (parasitic bullshitting masquerading as moral training) with actual moral training: Martial Arts and Mindful Arts:

    A cult of Agency.

    Work hard. Train hard. Take no shit. Protect your community.

    Instead of a parasitic priestly class training subordinates to God (alienating conscience from the ego).. The sheepdog class must train subordination to the Self (integrating the conscience with the ego), by teaching self-disicipline (the Mindful Arts) and physical empowerment (the Martial Arts).

    Everyman a judge. Everyman a sheriff.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-11 19:03:00 UTC

  • Correct, and they adapt as a group, primarily through selection and via env. dem

    Correct, and they adapt as a group, primarily through selection and via env. demand – via endocrine expression, as I stated.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-11 04:06:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/895858828343955456

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    @curtdoolittle People adapt to their environment over evolutionary time.

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  • IT’S NOT SO MUCH IQ ALONE…. —” What allows one to understand and appreciate

    IT’S NOT SO MUCH IQ ALONE….

    —” What allows one to understand and appreciate both Peterson and Doolittle is a lack of ego-investment in the existing orthodoxy, above average intellect, and familiarity with both Humanities and STEM. Their loudest critics are those with their flags firmly planted in an existing weltanschauung.”— Alastair Buckwheat

    Definition:

    Welt·an·schau·ung (ˈveltˌänˌSHouəNG, noun )

    A particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-10 20:21:00 UTC

  • Ok. Agree on parenting: you can harm them but you can’t improve them

    Ok. Agree on parenting: you can harm them but you can’t improve them.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-10 18:44:05 UTC

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    @curtdoolittle https://t.co/zvTGAn0a9v

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  • “Curt do you believe in any conspiracy theories?”— Aaron Kahland I fall on the

    —“Curt do you believe in any conspiracy theories?”— Aaron Kahland

    I fall on the other side of the spectrum in that I am not sure we are all that much in control of how we follow incentives; and that in general, people feel intuitions to follow certain forms of incentives and they tend to do so whenever the opportunity is left open.

    So we must always suppress all possible incentives that would provide opportunity rather than imagine people are able to resist opportunities and justify them by one means or another.

    So for example, I understand what the advertising, marketing, financial, and political sectors along with women, christians, jews, muslims are all doing. And the European project is my favorite example of a really bad set of incentives. But whether it’s a conspiracy, genetics, or cultural ‘training’ to produce their behaviors is something else.

    I have been wrong about conspiracies that have proven to be true a number of times, precisely because I have so much experience ‘diagnosing’ organizations (business, industries, economies, and institutions) where some set of incentives produce other malincentives that produce unintended consequences.

    But I tend to try to remain in control of my life, and my advantages of birth give me some control over it, so I am probably the subject of malignancies of underestimating ill intentions. Which is what the data says we should expect. My problem is more the obsessive autistic machine in my own head. It colors my judgement more than anything else.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-10 16:47:00 UTC

  • I gotta get us off this ‘differen’t track and into ‘more human, less human, and

    I gotta get us off this ‘differen’t track and into ‘more human, less human, and animal.’ Because that’s it really. The line of demarcation between animal and human is reason versus impulse.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-10 11:03:00 UTC

  • 9) Group Selection by shifts in demand for reproductive rates of different trait

    9) Group Selection by shifts in demand for reproductive rates of different traits demonstrably exists. Hence 5’3″ brunette rates of birth.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-09 14:35:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/895292407650111489

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    @JayMan471

    @curtdoolittle https://t.co/zvTGAn0a9v

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  • Don’t give me that nonsense. If you try morphine, cocaine, or heroin you will te

    Don’t give me that nonsense. If you try morphine, cocaine, or heroin you will tell me if fulfills a human need too. Comforting lies, or comforting chemicals provide the same reward, with the same costs: decline.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-09 11:21:00 UTC